Word: uwe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past two years, the growing success of three writers-Günter Grass, Heinrich Böll and Uwe Johnson-has signaled a change. Their achievement represents the fulfilled promise of a handful of serious writers, most of them young and linked with a maverick literary movement known as Group 47, who have persistently gone on trying to probe beneath the surface prosperity to the uneasy past. As artists, they know that the dramatic story of Nazi Germany must lie not with the wolves but in the everyday lives of the lambs-those many individuals whose accumulation of fear, self...
...change is at the Defense Ministry, for it brings to the fore a new personality who will rival Schroder in the C.D.U. echelon below Erhard. Successor to Strauss is a North German named Kai-Uwe von Hassel,* 49, who was born in Tanganyika, Germany's former East African colony. Von Hassel's agility in C.D.U. party matters has long marked him as a comer...
...Hassel's unusual first names are of archaic Frisian origin and often encountered in North Germany. Uwe (pronounced oo-vuh) is similar to Oswald, while Kai (rhymes with sky) is a near-perfect name for a German politician. It means: "One who is dangerous to his enemy...
...gleaming white uwe, a kind of nightshirt decorated with lace, Nigeria's delegate made quite a sight on the rostrum of the U.N. General Assembly. And his words made quite a stir among the assembled delegates. "I am losing confidence in the great powers," cried chubby Jaja Wachuku, lambasting both East and West for failing to end their quarrels. "They are climbing from the pedestal of greatness to the pedestal of insanity. We expect leadership from them; they give us destruction. We expect wisdom from them; they give us lack of knowledge. We expect objectivity from them; they present...
Later, three foreigners will discuss "Does the West Need an Ideology?" In the symposium will be Miguel Barnad, professor at Ateneo de Manila; Uwe Johnson, German author; and Aryeh Simon, of the Israel Ministry of Education and Culture...